For this week, I decided to write about the Haftorah, and not about the Torah portion.
Are you the center of your life?
Kings chapter 1
i
King David is old.
He is cold and he cannot be warmed.
His servants cover him in clothes, and he cannot be warmed.
His servants bring a young woman to lie in bed with him, and he cannot be warmed.
The warmth of life leaves him.
ii
There is strife over who of David’s sons will succeed him.
David tells his wife Batsheva: our son Solomon—and not the son of any of my other wives—will succeed me
as I have sworn to you by Hashem.
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Batsheva tells David: May my master the king David live forever.
iii
You can be the center of your life.
All others will be your servants.
But then you have no true life.
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When your life lies in others around you, then life comes.
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David has servants to serve him.
They bring him clothes, they bring him a woman to warm him.
He is still cold unto death.
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David affirms his oath to his wife, to God, of which son will succeed him
—of how he will live on through his family.
Then Batsheva says:
May my master the king David live forever.
Shabbat Shalom,
Abe
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